Uchujin -The Blog

Kenzaburo Oe (2nd from left) and Yamamoto Taro(right) lead the 19th September Anti-Nuclear march as it leaves Meiji park in Tokyo

The scenes that started in Meiji park around midday yesterday and continued through the day as a 50,000 people strong crowd, led by Kenzaburo Oe (winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1994) marched through the streets of Tokyo to protest Nuclear power are quite simply the most impressive thing I have ever seen in Japan.
The exact numbers in the crowd are in dispute (Police-29,000 , NHK 60,000) but my estimate would be around 50,000. Consisting of a mainly older demographic that is sure to worry the politicians, there was none of the Police violence of last weekend’s much smaller but younger demonstration in Shinjuku and the overall police presence was much smaller.

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Look at what happens when you borrow a Canon 15mm f2.8 fisheye lens from Mr Eiichi “Scart” Miyamoto for a project you are shooting.(Lead photo is from the project, shh! secret for now)
You end up walking around with it on your camera for over a week, seeing the world in a whole new ‘wider’ way.

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Center Gai, Shibuya, Tokyo.
The rarely seen and almost never photographed mating ritual of the “bleached coiffure construction worker” and the “covered face fascist”.

The ritual begins with the construction worker, seen here in his usual green coloured plumage, feigning sleep in the middle of a busy pedestrian street, the perfect tactic to attract the attentions of the increasingly prevalent “covered face” species of the Tokyo blue fascist.(A bizarre mutation of the blue fascist made possible by the acquiescence of the unusually docile native animals in this particular area) Read more…

As promised here is the second installment of the “Unpublished 2009″ set.
This will almost certainly be the last post for 2009.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by in 2009, hope to see y’all in 2010.
Happy New year!

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I could wax lyrical, I could even quote Del boy but instead to mark the passing of another year I’ll just post one unpublished picture from each month of the past year.

This is part 1, look out for part 2 in the next few days.

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For the past week, Moonwire and David Teeter, two fellow photographers I met through flickr have been here in Tokyo.

I’ve used various forms of social networks and chat rooms for getting on for 10 years and most of the people I’ve met “offline” from other places have turned out to be freaks who I never wanted to meet “offline” ever again.

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